The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors

If you’re gonna cheat, you might as well do it on the cheap. That seems to be the going line of thought among would-be cheaters in games like Counter-Strike, who risk losing access to games and even their accounts if they get caught. Valve, however, has caught on to the loophole.

The day after this year’s big Steam Summer Sale wrapped up, Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) auto-detected a whopping 40,411 cheating accounts, according to Steam Database (via Dot Esports). That’s a record high, making the previous October 2016 record of 15,227 look like some dude in his pajamas with a fly swatter compared to a crack team of exterminators